Quantitative Datasets
Workshop data
Assignment data
You will use one of the datasets available below for your assignment task. These are real-life data from large-scale nationally representative surveys that include variables relating to the research questions posted on Canvas. To make the data more manageable (and because the module cannot cover some very important but more advanced topics such as clustering standard errors and multi-level modelling of cross-country data, or applying survey weights) the datasets are broken down by country and contain only a small selection of the variables available from the original surveys.
References
Delhey J and Newton K (2003) Who trusts?: The origins of social trust in seven societies. European Societies 5(2). Routledge: 93–137.
Österman M (2021) Can we trust education for fostering trust? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of education and tracking on social trust. Social Indicators Research 154(1): 211–233.
Wilkinson RG and Pickett K (2010) The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. New York: Bloomsbury Press.